A brush with life
A day in adulthood
A helpless follower
A man draped in tattered clothes
After dark
An axe on Keats
And can't I mould my future
And how the dreams fall
Being in love
Bereft of success
Between despair and hope
Come back soon
Devil and his counterpart
Devour
Engineers
Epitaph
Farewell
Farewell from the circle of friends
Fast moves the time
Femina
Finding Estella again
Freedom came cheap
From where to nowhere
Fulfillment
Harvest
Heart in Everest
Heaven to hell and back again
HOME
How he lies amid his ruins, and you smile
How I missed the beauty
I want to be your nosering
I weave a dream
I wonder
Insomnia
Kiss from a rose
Land's end
Leeches in my soul
Letter from battlefield
Looking back
Losing everything
Love and compromise
Love in modern times
Madonna
My abode among the clouds
My beloved
Naga Sadhu goes digital
Nevertheless I tried
Ode
On St. Valentine
On visiting an old place
Papa dear
Rancour
Reminiscences from my graveyard
Stranger at the tavern
Suspended animation
Tears, idle tears
Telephone call to my beloved
Tell her I am dead
Termination
That passed, this also may
The blissful illusion
The breathless seashore
The bride
The Buddha smiled, but he died
The cigarette butt, the mosquito blood
The day after the crossing
The desert princess
The dipping sun
The eve of St. Valentine
The frozen wet damsel
The last word
The pen and the paper
The phoenix
The pimp
The silence spoke so much
The soldier's lament
The tear left a trail
The world beyond innocence
They tell me I am mad
Thoughts of tomorrow
Titanic
To hug her close or leave her alone
Today I die
Vain is the wish to be born again
Vanished figure
Walking through the streets of a country deprived
When loss pains no more
Where the grass in not painted green
Which is better?
Wild nights
You don't ask
You see why I died

 

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Vain is the wish to be born again

The day is gone and there it lies buried in dust!
And would not time ravage its memory?
From ashes to ashes, from dust to dust…
And I thought I could bring it back by my love-
Oh! How wrong was I! But I wish,
I still wish I could see the day that had me born.
-24\10\98,Calcutta-63

 

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